Midnight Hammer Lessons

Only the best get to fly

“China has lately stepped up its incursions and harassment of Taiwan and the Philippines,” Steve explains, “and maybe sending a few B2s that direction sends the message that we are noticing.” Steve is on to something, and some realities about Midnight Hammer have gone unnoticed.

None of the B2 pilots got that assignment because they were LGBTQ, had ancestry on the Iberian peninsula of Europe, because they were an Asian-Pacific Islander, or because they got all their Covid boosters. The pilots got the call because they were the very best. The same goes for the crews that refueled the B2s in flight multiple times, the fighter escorts, and the submariners who unleashed the Tomahawk missiles. None is a task for the unqualified, but there’s more to it.

There is no constitutional right to join the US military, which has one purpose: to fight and defeat the nation’s enemies. To engage a foe in combat with less than the best is like playing poker with the second-best hand: you can bluff or fold. Better to deploy the best and achieve victory, as in Midnight Hammer.

Seven B2s flew from Whiteman AFB in Missouri, one of the strategic bases overflown by China’s massive surveillance balloon in 2023. Malstrom AFB in Montana and Offutt in Nebraska also deploy strategic assets. A real president would have shot down China’s balloon the moment it entered US airspace, but as Conrad Black observed, Joe Biden was only a waxworks effigy of a president.

Vice President Biden “got China,” through the efforts of longtime Democrat activist Thomas Donilon, an advisor to Biden in 1988. The President Formerly Known as Barry Soetoro tapped Donilon for national security advisor, which troubled even Robert Scheer of The Nation. Donilon proclaimed that “a deeper U.S.-China military-to-military dialogue is central to addressing many of the sources of insecurity and potential competition between us.”

In similar style, Joe Biden said the Chinese were “not bad folks” and not even competition for the USA. So no surprise that the Delaware Democrat gave China’s balloon a free pass, and lets China’s spies strip-mine the United States of intellectual property. And don’t forget Gen. Mark Milley, who would tip off China of an impending attack.

Members of the “intelligence community” would doubtless have warned the Mullahs about Midnight Hammer, so a ballpark figure for the IC types who knew about the operation is zero. The deep state drones now contend the operation was a failure. China knows it wasn’t and has been sending signals of its own.

The virus China crafted in Wuhan, with collaboration from Dr. Anthony Fauci, helped the PRC get the commander in chief they wanted. China now tasks its “students” at the University of Michigan to bring in Fusarium graminearum, a toxic fungus that causes “head blight” disease on wheat and barley, and produces reproductive defects in livestock and humans.

To paraphrase Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) in The Big Lebowski, this is what happens when you let a genocidal Stalinist dictatorship infiltrate the nation and purchase land near American strategic bases. That must stop, and the regime’s “students” need a quick transfer to universities in the PRC. Surely their credits from Harvard and Columbia will be transferrable.